Opera Rara and Warner Classics are ramping up their partnership with a number of upcoming releases to follow up the collaboration on a recent recording of Rossini’s complete “Semiramide.”

At a luncheon in New York City, the chief participants in the partnership, including conductor and Opera Rara musical director Sir Mark Elder, talked about the future plans, which included three new recordings.

The first of these will be a recording of Donizetti’s “L’Ange de Nisida” which will feature Elder conducting the Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra. The recording comes from the world premiere last season and featured Joyce El-Khoury, David Junghoon Kim, Laurent Naouri, Vito Priante, and Evgeny Stavinsky. So in fact, this release will not only be the first-ever recording of the work, but also a testament to its first-ever performance. That recording is set for release in Spring 2019.

In Autumn of 2019, the company will release a studio recording of the first performance of a new critical edition of Puccini’s first opera, “Le Villi.” Starring Ermonela Jaho (in her second recording for Opera Rara), Arsen Soghomonyan, and Brian Mulligan, this performance is slated for the Royal Festival Hall on Nov. 21, 2018. Elder will conduct.

Then in the Spring of 2020, the company will release a studio recording of the first performance of a new critical edition of Donizetti’s “Il Paria.” Albina Shagimuratova, who starred in the recent “Semiramide” recording, will work alongside Davide Luciano, and Marko Mimica. Elder will conduct the Britten Sinfonia in a performance slated for June 8, 2019 at the Barbican Centre.